During the Oak Orchard Health (OOH) Board meeting on September 24, the Board heard about the urgent need for diapers both in the migrant farmworker community and among OOH’s patients with family incomes at 250% of the federal poverty level or less.
Oak Orchard Health maintains one of the few, very rare diaper banks in the area, and the bank is currently depleted. The health center has applied for grants, expected to be awarded in November or later, that would focus on supplying the diaper bank and OOH patients.
During the Board meeting, the Brockport Kiwanis Club presented Karen Kinter, CEO of Oak Orchard Health, with a $1,500 donation that can be utilized to resupply the diaper bank and allow this service to continue until the larger grants are awarded. OOH currently serves approximately 755 patient families.
Presenting the donation were Brigitte Duschen and Pete Head of the Brockport Kiwanis Club.
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